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Visual Editor - "View as" settings

 

You can customize your data appearance on the list/view/print pages using formatting options on the "View as" settings dialog. To control the filed appearance on the page click right button over the field and choose Properties. Depending on selected format you will see different box-dialogs.

"View as" settings

You can control the field appearance on the list page. Choose between the following formats:

Short Date - dates will be displayed in short format ( 02/17/2003 )

Long Date - dates will be displayed in long format ( 17 February 2003 )

Time - datetime values will be displayed as time ( 14:22:03 )

Currency - numeric values like 14000 will be displayed as $14 000.00 ( actual format depends on your system regional settings like currency symbol, decimal symbol etc.)

Percent - Example: 0.38 will be displayed as 38%.

Hyperlink - choose this format if you store hyperlinks in this database field. Those hyperlinks will be made clickable automatically.

Email Hyperlink - choose this format if you store email addresses in this database field. It will be converted into mailto HTML code automatically.

File (available for Text and Binary fields)

Depending on field type (text or binary field) you will be able to choose either URL prefix to folder where files are located or field name that stores filenames.

Here are some examples of URL prefix usage:

images/ - images folder is located in output directory
/images/ - images folder is located under website root
../images/ - images folder is located one level above

http://www.abc.com/images/ - full path to images folder

Note: in most cases URL prefix ends with forward slash.

Mercedes-Benz-CL-500.jpg will be automatically converted into <img src="images/mercedes-benz-cl-500.jpg" border=0>

In case of Binary field you need to choose a field that stores filename. This filename is required to set correct file type when you retrieve uploaded file from the database. If you don't choose filename field or leave it empty you will be presented with Open with ... dialog every time you download this file from the database.

Image (available for Text and Binary fields)

Binary field - if you store images in the database, PHPRunner creates a code that extracts images from database on the fly. Supported image formats are JPEG, GIF and BMP. If you want to display the thumbnail then you should select the appropriate checkbox and choose the field name that holds the thumbnail.

Text field - choose image size and URL prefix similar to View as type File. If you want to display the thumbnail then you should select the appropriate checkbox and choose the thumbnail prefix. For example, if the original image file's name is example.gif and thumbnail file's name is th_example.gif correspondingly then the thumbnail prefix should have the value of "th_".

If you want to display the images using iBox plugin check corresponding checkbox.

More info about iBox plugin here.

US phone number - formats number as a US phone number. Supports 7-digit or 10-digit numbers (123) 456-7890 or 123-4567

Number - choose this format if you like to format this field as number. Two digits after decimal point implied.

HTML - use this view type when you store formatted HTML code in database field and wish to display this HTML code on the list page.

Checkbox - use view format to present field value as a checkbox. Works best with the following datatypes:

MS Access: Yes/No field

SQL Server: TINYINT or BIT field

MySQL: TINYINT

Oracle: NUMBER(1)

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